Win an "It's Complicated" DVD and Bake Like Meryl Streep

In the hit movie It’s Complicated–out today on DVD–Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep plays Jane Adler, a mother of three and successful caterer caught in a love triangle between her ex-husband Jake (Alec Baldwin) and her new boyfriend/architect Adam (Steve Martin). Jane owns a bustling bakery in Santa Barbara and in one particularly delicious scene takes Adam to her store after hours to make a romantic late night snack.

Surveying the chalkboard menu, Jane says she’ll make anything theyoffer. Adam wisely picks the warm chocolate croissant, one of Jane’sspecialties. Jane whips up the pastries in nothing flat–and Meryl, nostranger to playing professional chefs, looks great doing it. She laysout the dough, sends it through the automatic dough roller to compactthe buttery layers, cuts them into triangles, then helps Adam roll theminto chocolate-filled crescents. When they sit down to the finishedproduct, you can practically smell the pastry through the screen. Thebaking montage had me really wishing fresh pain au chocolat couldmagically appear from my kitchen too.

Not everyone has a fullystocked professional kitchen at their disposal like Jane and Adam, butfor a taste of flaky chocolate pastry at home, we suggest our quick andeasy recipe for Petit Pain au Chocolat.There’s no need to tell anyone they’re made with frozen puff pastrysheets and your house will smell as good as that scene looked.

Enter for a chance to win a free DVD of “It’s Complicated” starring Meryl Streep.

Inthe movie, Streep’s character owns a bakery.
Tell us about yourculinary aspirations–like owning a cheese shop, vacationing on afarm, or making your own pastries from scratch–and you could win a free DVD of “It’sComplicated” starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin.